Memorie istoriche di Monaco de' Corbizzi fiorentino, Patriarca di Gerusalemme / raccolte da Giovanni Mariti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mariti, Giovanni, 1736-1806.

Contributor:

Holy Land Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Haymarus, Monacus Florentinus, Patriarch of Jerusalem, -1202.

Haymarus.

Philip, the Apostle, Saint.

Relics.

Patriarchs and patriarchate.

Jerusalem--History--Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244.

Jerusalem.

Patriarchs and patriarchate--Biography.

Jerusalem--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Philip, the Apostle, Saint--Relics.

Philip.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Lazard, Bertrand (bookplate) (former owner) (Holy Land Collections copy)

Lazard, Paola (bookplate) (former owner) (Holy Land Collections copy)

Physical Description:

XI pages, 1 unnumbered page, 191 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

dio, 0.p. i.di Leal (3) 1781 (R)

Place of Publication:

Firenze : Nella stampería di Antonio Benucci e Compp. Al canto al Diamante, MDCCLXXXI [1781]

Language Note:

Text in Italian and Latin.

Notes:

Imprint statement from colophon.

Dedicated to Antonio Martini, Archbishop of Florence.

Contains a history of the translation of the relic of the arm of Saint Philip the Apostle from the Holy Land to the Battistero di San Giovanni in Florence, Italy. Commissioned by Giovanni da Velletri, the bishop of Florence (1204-30), shortly after the relic was placed in the baptistery, the Traslatio text is preserved in two manuscripts, one at Florence's Biblioteca Riccardiana, the other at the Opera del Duomo. Cf. "Art Imitates Architecture: The Saint Philip Reliquary in Renaissance Florence" by Sally J. Cornelison, The Art Bulletin, 86.4 (Dec. 2004), p. 642-658.

Signatures: *⁶ A-M⁸.

"Translatio brachii beati Philippi apostoli ex ms. eccl. cathedralis Florentinae": p. [117]-134.

"Monachi Florentini acconensis episcopi de recuperata Ptolemaide liber": p. [135]-187.

Folded leaf of plates is an illustration of the reliquary of St. Philip the Apostle, signed "L: Molinelli del." and "M: Carboni scul."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Holy Land Collections copy has the bookplate of Paola and Bertrand Lazard on the front paste-down endpaper.

Holy Land Collections copy purchased for the Penn Libraries at the Pierre Bergé & associés auction held on April 29, 2008.

Contains:

Translatio brachii beati Philippi apostoli.

Monachi Florentini acconensis episcopi de recuperata Ptolemaide.

OCLC:

56710082